What is the longest film you have ever watched in it's entirety in one sitting?

I have yet to see a book or film self marketed with the term minor motion picture either.

I'm from a hollywood background, not recently, starting in the twenties, when my father was a cutter and worked up. Uncles were studio treasurers. I was weaned reading reporter and variety.
If I like a film, it might be for hollywood values - unusual lately that I would - but most often would not be.
Shoah is an important film.

Major as a word has different meanings.

Cleopatra - around 5 hours.

I remember a movie I had little patience with and then got into.. her Moliere.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_Mnouchkine

Adds,
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0594892/

I see Man from Rio is plugged in on there.
I loved that movie the first time and could not remember why, the second time.

Maybe I need to see it a third.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) - Runtime:178 min | 208 min (special extended edition
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Runtime:179 min | 223 min (special extended edition)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Runtime:201 min | 251 min (extended edition)
So that’s 682 hours of extended version marathon mayhem.

Then there’s the Star Wars Marathon with a total of 805 hours.
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)

And Finally the Indiana Jones Marathon with 482 hours.
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

When you run through these movie marathons? Do you have a marathon ritual or do you wing it every time?

I walked out on "dancing with wolves" waited beside our car for my ex to see the ending.

You didn't miss a single thing Dys. What a terrible terrible boring and highly overrated film Dances With Wolves is. I regret watching the entire film as much as I regret not taking out the cassette and setting it on fire while returning it to the Blockbuster I rented it from.

The scenery was gorgeous though. It was filmed in my backyard.

there was a film made in my backyard,(at my farm) I don't remember the film other than I wasn't allowed into my driveway for several hours.

I'm not sure if the Mnoushkine Moliere movie was 260 minutes or the 300 minute version. Probably the 260. Long but good, to me.

But this is reminding me of another movie, Carne's Children of Paradise, I think was the title. Eh, a mere 160 minutes, I just looked it up.

Off topic, but re filming near you and yours -

There was a film filmed in my house.
Under the aegis of some government body, in the early fifties. A documentary, directed by my father. Title: American Working Women. I was in it, setting the table to show how children helped out.
I cringe now, of course. It was made, I take it, as some kind of propaganda, but I was only nine so I'm not clear on that.

I'm with you re dancing with wolves..

Beautiful scenary or not, I spent most of the movie wishing the Kevin Costner character did in fact successfully commit suicide and turn this feature film into a very short film. Either that or have the wolves rip his character's limbs off one at a time.

Dances With Wolves remains one of the gretest western epics.If people cant stand accuracy in depiction (yeh O know of the slips and one prop that was not available , but the use of metal arrow tips and the "trade goods" basis of the Indian daily life was pretty accurate .

I think that people dont like a movie without helicopters and lots of blowem up scenes.

This fil will remain a base for "amateur critics" lining up for or against for years.
Im a "Dances..."fan.

back in the 80's, a theatre in Toronto showed the Star Wars trilogy one Saturday (20 minute intermissions)
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope 121 minutes
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back 124 minutes
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi 131 minutes

I fell asleep the one time I tried watching "Wolves," and haven't had the stomach to attempt it again. Not a Costner fan. Not sure which is worse, "Wolves" or "Postman."

Great cure for insomnia, though.

BTW...Guinness lists The Cure for Insomnia as the world's longest movie...lol.